She is a Professor in Accounting at EMLV Business School and a fellow researcher at the Institut de Recherche en Gestion at Paris-Est University. She worked as a full professor at the ISG of Sousse University and was holder of the LAMIDED research laboratory. She published papers in Management International, Comptabilité-Contrôle-Audit, Gender, Work & Organization and Bankers, Markets and Investors among others. Her special research interests are in corporate governance, corporate disclosure, gender diversity, CSR and Tax avoidance.
Ramzi Benkraiem; Safa Gaaya; Faten Lakhal
Corporate tax avoidance, economic policy uncertainty, and the value of excess cash: International evidence Article de journal
Dans: Economic Modelling, vol. 108, p. 105738, 2022.
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Ramzi Benkraiem; Florence Depoers; Assil Guizani; Faten Lakhal
How do powerful decision-makers affect firm's stock price crash risk? Article de journal
Dans: Economics Bulletin, vol. 41, no. 3, p. 1876-1886, 2021.
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Nour Jedda; Faten Lakhal; Riadh Ghenima
Family Control and Investment Efficiency: Does financial analyst coverage matter? Article de journal
Dans: Management International, vol. 25, no. 3, p. 91-115, 2021.
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Faten Lakhal; Florence Depoers; Emna Brahem
Family control and corporate social responsibility: The moderating effect of the board of directors Article de journal
Dans: Management International, vol. 25, no. 2, p. 218 - 238, 2021.
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Claude Francoeur; Faten Lakhal; Safa Gaaya; Itidel Ben Saad
How Do Powerful CEOs Influence Corporate Environmental Performance? Article de journal
Dans: Economic Modelling, vol. 94, p. 121-129, 2021.
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Ramzi Benkraiem; Faten Lakhal; Itidel Ben Saad
New insights into IFRS and earnings quality: what conclusions to draw from the French experience? Article de journal
Dans: Journal of Applied Accounting Research, vol. 22, no. 2, p. 307-333, 2021.
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The authors construct an aggregated measure that considers the main qualitative information characteristics: reliability and relevance. They identify accruals quality, earnings smoothing and the degree of conditional conservatism as attributes of reliability and use earnings persistence, predictability, value relevance and timeliness to measure earnings relevance. To test the hypotheses, the authors use a sample of French listed companies. The analyses are based on ordinary least squares (OLS) fixed effects, the Newey-West estimator and the difference-in-difference approach. The authors also use cluster analysis to identify firms with high incentives for earnings quality.
Findings
The results reveal a decrease in earnings quality that persisted for a decade after IFRS adoption. This decrease is mainly due to a decline in earnings relevance, suggesting that the fair value principle worsened earnings volatility. However, the results show that there is an improvement in earnings reliability after IFRS adoption, suggesting that the international standards were able to constrain managerial opportunism. Additionally, the findings reveal that firm-specific incentives can enhance the positive effect of IFRS, but the incentives are not able to substitute for such effect.
Research limitations/implications
The IFRS effect depends on firm-specific incentives.
Practical implications
The authors prove that firm-specific incentives are important to accentuate the positive effect of IFRS on earnings reliability and to mitigate the impact of IFRS on earnings relevance.
Originality/value
This paper makes several contributions to the literature. First, it addresses the relative lack of attention to the main qualitative characteristics in measuring earnings quality, that is, earnings reliability and earning relevance, and uses an aggregate earnings quality measure. Second, this paper uses a cluster analysis to highlight the role of firm-specific incentives in shaping the effect of IFRS on earnings quality.},
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Imen Zorgati; Faten Lakhal
Spatial contagion in the subprime crisis context: Adjusted correlation versus local correlation approaches Article de journal
Dans: Economic Modelling, vol. 92, p. 162-169, 2020.
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Faten Lakhal; Sabri Boubaker; Assil Guizani
Does corporate innovation strategy influence stock price crash risk? French market evidence Article de journal
Dans: Bankers, Markets and Investors, vol. 162, p. 35-52, 2020.
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Faten Lakhal; Assil Guizani; Florence Depoers
Contrôle familial, conseil d'administration et risque de chute du cours d'actions : Le cas des entreprises françaises Article de journal
Dans: Management & Avenir, vol. 119, p. 109-129, 2020.
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Sabri Boubaker; Emna Brahem; Faten Lakhal
La diversité du genre influence-t-elle la performance RSE des entreprises familiales ? Article de journal
Dans: La Revue des Sciences de Gestion, vol. 303-304, p. 71-80, 2020.
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Ramzi Benkraiem; Faten Lakhal; C. Zopounidis
International diversification and corporate cash holding behavior: What happens during economic downturns ? Article de journal
Dans: Journal Of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 170, p. 362-371, 2020.
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Ramzi Benkraiem; Safa Gaaya; Faten Lakhal
Cross-Country Evidence on Earnings Quality and Corporate Tax Avoidance: The Moderating Role of Legal Institutions Article de journal
Dans: Economics Bulletin, vol. 40, no. 2, p. 1714-1726, 2020.
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Aymen Ajina; Faten Lakhal; Sabrine Ayed
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Reduce Earnings Management? The Moderating Role of Corporate Governance and Ownership Article de journal
Dans: Management International, vol. 23, no. 2, p. 45-55, 2019.
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Imen Zorgati; M. Zaabi; Faten Lakhal
Financial contagion in the subprime crisis context: A copula approach Article de journal
Dans: North American Journal Of Economics And Finance, vol. 47, p. 269-282, 2019.
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Faten Lakhal; Assil Guizani; Nadia Lakhal
The cash flow sensitivity of cash in family firms: does the board of directors matter? Article de journal
Dans: Managerial Finance, vol. 44, no. 11, p. 1364-1380, 2018.
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Ramzi Benkraiem; Amal Hamrouni; Faten Lakhal; Nadia Toumi
Board independence, gender diversity and CEO compensation Article de journal
Dans: Corporate Governance: the international journal of business in society, vol. 17, no. 5, p. 845-860, 2017.
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Safa Gaaya; Faten Lakhal; Nadia Lakhal
Does family ownership reduce corporate tax avoidance Article de journal
Dans: Managerial Auditing Journal, vol. 32, no. 7, p. 731-744, 2017.
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Mehdi Nekhili; I. F. Ben Amar; Tawhid Chtioui; Faten Lakhal
Free cash flow and earnings management: The moderating role of governance and ownership Article de journal
Dans: Journal of Applied Business Research, vol. 32, no. 1, p. 255-268, 2016.
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Zeineb Zouari; Faten Lakhal; Mehdi Nekhili
Do CEO characteristics affect earnings management? Evidence from France Article de journal
Dans: International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 12, no. 4, p. 801-819, 2015.
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R. Labelle; Claude Francoeur; Faten Lakhal
To Regulate Or Not To Regulate? Early Evidence on the Means Used Around the World to Promote Gender Diversity in the Boardroom Article de journal
Dans: Gender Work And Organization, vol. 22, no. 4, p. 339-363, 2015.
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Faten Lakhal; Amal Aguir; Nadia Lakhal; Adnane Malek
Do women on boards and in top management reduce earnings management? Evidence from France Article de journal
Dans: Journal of Applied Business Research, vol. 31, no. 3, p. 1107-1118, 2015.
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abstract = {The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of gender diversity on the boardroom and in top management positions on earnings management by French-listed firms. Based on a sample of 170 firms over 4 years, we find that the proportion of women on the board standing as a director or a chair reduces earnings management. This finding suggests that women are effective on their monitoring role and are then considered as a crucial corporate governance device. We also find that the relationship between the presence of at least three women on the board and earnings management is negative suggesting that by increasing thenumber of women on board through regulation and legislation, French firms are likely to enhance the effectiveness of the board to better detect earnings management. However, women standing in CEO and CFO positions do not affect earnings management practices. These findings suggest that efforts made by political bodies to promote equality between men and women on boards are beneficial for French-listed companies by limiting earnings management practices. However, regulating or imposing a quota of women on boards can create a temporal shortage of qualified women available to take up such positions.},
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Aymen Ajina; Faten Lakhal; Danielle Sougné
Institutional investors' ownership and stock market liquidity: The case of French-listed firms Article de journal
Dans: International Journal of Managerial Finance, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 44-59, 2015.
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Samir Belkhaoui; Faten Lakhal; Slaheddine Hellara
Market structure, strategic choices and bank performance: a path model Article de journal
Dans: Managerial Finance, vol. 40, no. 6, p. 538-564, 2014.
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Faten Lakhal; Aymen Ajina
Ownership structure and stock market liquidity in France Article de journal
Dans: Bankers, Markets & Investors, vol. x, no. 104, p. 42-52, 2010.
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Faten Lakhal
Les mécanismes de gouvernement d'entreprises et les publications volontaires des résultats en France Article de journal
Dans: Comptabilite Controle Audit, vol. 12, no. 2, p. 69-92, 2006.
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Sabrine Ayed; Faten Lakhal; Aymen Ajina
Summer conference on financial implications of sustainability and corporate social responsibility, Nice, France, 2018.
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abstract = {The purpose of this study is to shed the light on the effect of corporate social performance on stock market liquidity in the French context. Based on a sample of 100 companies from 2011-2013, our results approve the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), particularly community engagement and governance in reducing information asymmetry and improving stock market liquidity. This result supports the theoretical legitimacy and reputational hypotheses. Moreover, with the presence of a high proportion of institutional investors, we find a negative impact of CSR activities on market liquidity. These findings may have important implications in terms of the academic and managerial understanding toward the relative benefits of CSR. Indeed, our results highlight the relevance of developing the CSR activities and particularly community engagement and governance by French firms in order to better assess firms' values and improve their stock liquidity. However, institutional investors are not deemed to bean effective corporate governance device for French companies suggesting that stock liquidity could be affected by the way CSR is monitored.},
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